Software Freedom Day Celebration
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on Thu, 09/06/2007 - 20:00Events
on Thu, 09/06/2007 - 20:00EventsMozilla is helping recognize Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 15th, along with hundreds of organizations worldwide. SFD is a global, grassroots effort to spread the word about the importance of free and open source software. Here are the events we're helping to support:
- Utah Open Source Conference, 9/6 - 9/8
- San Francisco State's celebration, 9/13: Zak Greant of the Mozilla Foundation will be giving a talk to Dr. Sameer Verma's "Managing Open Source" class.
- Carolina Open Source Initiative's event at UNC Chapel Hill -- Mark Finkle, one of our evangelists, and Justin Scott, an intern responsible for creating and launching Rock Your Firefox, will be conducting a session on how to get involved with Mozilla.
- The Beijing Linux Users group event at Tsinghua University, 9/15. Li Gong who heads our China office will be speaking.
- Mozilla 24, 9/15: We've registered our own worldwide conference as a Software Freedom Day event. Zak Greant will be providing a talk on free and open source software, while David Humphrey, professor at the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada, will discuss how to get involved with open source. Register here to attend an in-person event at Stanford or catch the sessions online.
